Akio Isono Movies

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors...

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing...

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a practical joke and romance are the set up for some...

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to...

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.

Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.